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not going into windows!

hey guys! My pic was working normally and now when I turn it on stops saying:

Detecting primary master : the name
Detecting Primary slave: the name
Detecting Secondary Master: the name
Detecting secondary slave: the name

And it does go to windows, if I put the booting disk it stops in the same place and it doesn't read the disk in the start. When I click F1 for the computer setup everything looks normal and I click use default and save and restart and the same happens.

if i understand what the problem is then
take the case of your computer and check all the wiring going to your hard disks, make sure they all have the data cable and power cable connected to them and also check that the data cable is connected to your motherboard.

But anyway... you might have to go into your bios (you know, press 'del' to enter setup) then select auto detect IDE drives... if you haven't touched anything they should install no probs, just keep pressing enter to confirm.

And check that the 'boot sequence' in the general setup area or somthing like that, is set to a,c,CDROM or somthing starting with a...